Chapter 160: A Necessary Sacrifice
"I can promise you that you will not be held accountable for any money or a woman, and you will not even be able to swear to the gods of faith, please. The slave trader pleaded, his pants shivering with the foul-smelling liquid of his lower body.
"Guess what I want. Liu Ming smiled, but it didn't look kind.
"Don't let me guess, please let me go, they're just a group of half-orcs, the lowest existence in this continent, alongside the goblin clan, you are a high-level adventurer, you shouldn't take a chance for their freedom. ”
The slave merchant looked at Liu Ming's eyes, and there was no dead silence, and there was no fluctuation when the freedom of slaves was mentioned.
No, this guy can't be that stupid
"I'm sorry, but I'm a low-level untouchable living in the lower echelons of the world, not a high-level adventurer. Liu Ming smiled, slowly stood up and took a few steps back.
The lion orc was about to make a move, but was stopped by Liu Ming.
"You have to be mentally prepared that if you kill him, what awaits you may be worse than death. Liu Ming looked at it indifferently, and the lion orc hesitated for a moment and glanced at his companion behind him.
The companion behind him shook his head at it, and the lion half-orc smiled with satisfaction and said, "Thank you, the lion will never forget your kindness, and may the benefactor be prosperous." ”
After speaking, he trampled the hapless slave trader to death.
Purple-black streaks floated from the corpse of the slave trader, quickly drawing on the chest of the lion's whine, the size of two palms, faintly glowing with black light, emitting an evil smell.
Liu Ming looked at the imprint cautiously, as if he felt a thin line implicating it.
"The revenge has to be avenged, the lion woo is also a burden to everyone, leave first. The leonin orc shuddered and said that he chose to face death alone, and the mark on his body would attract other slave traders.
Staying here will only cause trouble for your companions.
Take the key from the slave merchant's pocket, untie the chains of the rest of the orcs, and leave alone, carrying the corpse and riding the merchant's horse.
Waiting for the lion to walk away, Liu Ming turned his head to look at the thin half-orcs, and frowned, it was not a way to let them go, their current physical strength was easy to starve to death.
It is extremely difficult to find fish on the edge of the Lake of the Goddess, otherwise Liu Ming would not have relied on aquatic plants for a living.
The spare XP on the body is consumed by the system upgrade
It's over, and you can't exchange it for food.
"If any of you still have the physical strength, come with me to collect water and grass. The rest rested in place and collected dry branches. Liu Ming said.
The half-orcs looked at each other a few times, and a few males accompanied Liu Ming to the lake to collect, and it took two kilometers to collect today's portions, although there were hundreds of kilograms piled together, and only 10 were edible.
After a simple stew of water and grass feast, the half-orcs looked at the direct drool, but no one moved.
"Eat, what are you waiting for" Liu Ming said with a smile, rolled a spinning top with a large leaf, and handed it to the orc next to him.
"Benefactor, you can eat first, and leave the leftovers to us. "There was a girl who said that she had rabbit ears on her head and a nose that was still in the form of a beast, but there was no doubt that the other facial organs were human.
"Just eat together, don't be inhibited. I grew up in the Warcraft herd, and although I know that they look down on you, to me, you are life, and you deserve to be respected if you don't do anything harmful. Liu Ming's words made the orcs' eyes light up.
Is this still human, this is an angel?
With Liu Ming's permission, the hungry and thirsty half-orcs gathered around the pot in large pieces, and the previous rabbit girl ate a few bites, and sent a bowl of water and grass to Liu Ming.
Liu Ming took it and sat down beside her: "Do you live together?"
The girl in the rabbit group shook her head and said, "We live with the few people of the same race, because of the contempt of humans, monsters, and orcs, we live a difficult life. But even so, we still have a lot of help from humans, who are willing to give us some food. ”
"Is it a farmer on the border?" asked Liu Ming.
"Well, they're all simple old people, and we're grateful to them from the bottom of our hearts. But because of race, he didn't dare to repay. ”
"Until one day, George lied to us that he could offer us a job to help us out of our troubles, but unexpectedly we went to hell. Among the rabbits, only me and a few sisters survived, and the others died of starvation and exhaustion on the road. ”
Liu Ming listened quietly and handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears.
"The current partner is all kidnapped by George from somewhere else, and we can't resist him by drugging us in food. ”
Liu Ming understood from her intermittent narration that George was the slave trader he had killed, and he was also a slave trader with some prestige, belonging to a merchant family, in the Principality of the Eagle Division
Have a good position.
This time, I wanted to take the slaves through the endless grassland and reach the Qimo Kingdom to sell them for a good price.
After Liu Ming understood the general situation, he comforted the orcs present, tore off the strip of cloth from his body, and wrote a letter with the blood of his fingers, asking them to take Liya who was looking for Kumansha.
I helped her get rid of the great scourge of the grasslands, and now it's time to repay me.
"Walk along the lake, eat aquatic plants when you're hungry, and I'll teach you how to tell the difference. Find an old woman named Chief Lia, and if the guards stop you, give me my name, and the guards will let you pass. Liu Ming said.
"Is the benefactor a warrior of the tribe?"
"I'm the champion of this hunting tournament, just call me Stygian. I still have my own mission, I can't accompany you on the road, so be careful yourself. Liu Ming said with a smile.
This group of half-orcs is not from the poor countryside, naturally they have heard of the hunting conference in the grassland, but they didn't expect that the person in front of them is the champion, and the food in their mouths is so surprised that they don't know it.
"It's so powerful, no wonder it can knock the thousand-year-old ice chain out of the crack with one blow Listen to George, it is an excellent quality material, and we don't know how precious it is, but looking at his arrogant appearance, it should be a good thing. ”
This is a good thing, this is a treasure
Liu Ming looked at the thousand-year-old ice chain untied on the ground, not to mention the income system backpack, Lao Tzu had the materials to forge a new weapon
Steel bows are not durable, and thieves are expensive
"Ahem, it's not early, you come with me. Liu Ming took the well-fed orcs to the lake, fished out the aquatic plants that had not yet been cooked, and taught them to identify them.
Because there are too many kinds of aquatic plants, and the difference is not far away, Liu Ming taught for an hour to learn.
Wiping off the sweat, Liu Ming asked the orcs to walk in the direction they had come, leaving them in place to clean up the traces.
It is believed that soon, a slave trader will come to follow the clues and find traces of adventurers, and he will get into a lot of trouble.
After carefully cleaning up the scene, leaving traces of the lion's escape, he left in a big circle, and after making sure to go far, Liu Ming took out a small wooden box on the scorpion horse and said, "I didn't expect you to be sealed inside, and you still have consciousness." ”
"The sycamore box can only trap my body, but my consciousness has always been clear, and I wouldn't have let you save them if I hadn't met my dependents. ”